Song List: Ain't Gonna Get No Supper Here Tonight Altamont Angelina Baker (aka Angeline the Baker) Antelope Gap Arkansas Traveler Avalon Quickstep And The Cat Came Back Barlow Knife (John Salyer) Barlow Knife (Song) Banjo Tramp Been To The East, Been To The West Big Eyed Rabbit Big John McNeil Big Scioto Bill Cheatam Billy In The Low Ground Black Eyed Suzianna (aka Susiana) Black Cat in a Briar Patch Black Hills Waltz Black Jack GroveBlackbird Says to the CrowBoatman Bob Tailed Mule Booth Shot Lincoln Bowl-a-Rama Breaking Up Christmas Briar Picker Brown Broken Down Gambler Buck Mountain Buffalo Gals (KY version in G) Buffalo Gals (Common version in G) Buffalo Gals (in A) Buckin' Dun ull at the Wagon Camp Chase Camp Meeting on the 4th of July Candy Girl Chase the Squirrel Chattanooga Cincinnati Hornpipe Cherokee Shuffle (in A) Cherokee Shuffle (in D) Chinese Breakdown Climbing the Golden Stairs Chinquapin Hunting (in A) Chinquapin Hunting (in D � Stamper) Coast Is Clear Cluck Old Hen Colored Aristocracy Cookhouse Joe Crow Little Rooster Crook Brothers Breakdown Crow Creek Cuffy Cuckoo's Nest in D Cuckoo's Nest in A (aka Richmond) Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand Devil Eat the Groundhog Dinah Doctor, Doctor Dogs in the Dishes Double File Dry And Dusty Drunken Hiccups Ducks on the Mill Pond Dubuque Duck River Ducks in the pond Duke of Kent's Waltz Mr. Fishar's Hornpipe (aka Fisher's Hornpipe) Durang's Hornpipe Dusty Miller Ebenezer

Flex on the Move is a fun and creative approach to developing flexibility on all brass instruments. Available for trumpet, trombone and tuba. 42 pages and a lifetime of material!
Flex on the Move
There are many great books on flexibility (or ?lip flexibility? as it is commonly called) available to today?s brass players. The commonly used books include Irons 27 Groups, Smith Lip Flexibilities and Colin Advanced Lip Flexibilities. Flexibility studies do go all the way back to Arban and St, Jacome, but became a staple of brass pedagogy in the early 20th Century through teachers and authors like Del Staigers, Herbert L. Clarke, Earl D. Irons and Walter M. Smith.

There are different categories of flexibility exercises. There is ?Long Flexibility? like those found in Colin?s Vol. I of Advanced Lip Flexibilities. With Long Flexibility you stay on one fingering and play a long line that takes you through a large range. Then, there is ?Short Flexibility? similar to what is found in Irons and Smith where you play a repeated pattern on one fingering. Most flexibility falls into the Short Flexibility category. With this book, I would like to add ?Moving Flexibility? to the list. With Moving Flexibility you play a short pattern that takes you up and down through all the fingerings, covering a large range on your instrument. The idea of Moving Flexibility was first introduced in Arban p. 45 #16 and later in Charles Colin, 100 Original Warm-Ups.

Why Practice Flexibility?
Chances are, you?re not going to stand in front of an audience and perform flexibility studies. Flexibility studies are a means to an end, not the end. Most trumpet players practice some form of flexibility every day as it improves overall technique and gets you ready to play music. In our lessons, Claude Gordon would tell me how a particular exercise or routine he was writing would ?get me feelin? good.? So, that is my goal with these studies, to get you ?feelin? good?.

Technique
There are many beliefs among players as to what makes a brass instrument ?work?. Some believe it?s the lip, some believe it?s the tongue, some believe it?s the air, or some (like me) believe it?s a balance or coordination of all three. I don?t think that your chosen methodology will matter when practicing these exercises. If you practice them religiously and correctly, you?re playing will certainly improve.